Spoken January 27
The Nectar of Devotion
[indistinct] Prabhupāda: Page twenty-three open. Mādhavānanda: Here, twenty-five, page twenty-five. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Page twenty-five? Mādhavānanda: Yes. Prabhupāda: Yes. Go on. Mādhavānanda: It’s page twenty-five. I ended... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Read. Begin reading, Mādhavānanda. Mādhavānanda: I ended on the second paragraph. ItTamāla Kṛṣṇa:Mādhavānanda:Prabhupāda:Mādhavānanda:Prabhupāda:Mādhavānanda:Prabhupāda:Mādhavānanda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Acyutānanda:Prabhupāda…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: ...flowers, fruits, and temperature is changing. It is rotating. Very fixed up, very timely. How can you say there is no control? How can you say? The animals cannot say, but any human being can say, “Yes, there is control. Otherwise how things are going on like this?Nitāi:Prabhupāda:Nitāi:Prabhupāda:Nitāi:Prabhupāda:Nitāi:Prabhupāda:Nitāi:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:
Room Conversation
Pradyumna: [reads Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu to Prabhupāda] Prabhupāda: Yes. [corrects a word] You first accept these ten different methods. So explain that. Pradyumna: Guru-pādāśrayaḥ: “First one must take shelter of the lotus feet of a spiritual master.Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Indian m…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: We are under mercy of Kṛṣṇa. Gargamuni: To rectify us. It is a place to rectify. Prabhupāda: That rectification means to stop this repeated birth and death. [break] ...comes; again chance, again chance. Gurukṛpā: Why does it take us so long to learn? Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpā:Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:H…
Room Conversation
Satsvarūpa: They should give something for taking prasādam. [break] Prabhupāda: ...anna-sambhavaḥ. Satsvarūpa: “Surrender to Me.” Parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ [Bg. 3.14]. Prabhupāda: Then there is rainfall... Satsvarūpa: Oh, yes. Prabhupāda: Then there is food grains. We see this dry land... Because for the last few days, when changing his water heSatsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhu…
Room Conversation with Two Indian Guests
Prabhupāda: Politics means always fight between the kṣatriya and kṣatriya. Indian man (1): Still, actually, with this nonviolence method, we could get them, I mean, get the Britishers out from India. Prabhupāda: No, you are not... Violence method. It is the Subhas Bose’s organization.Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man…
Letters January 27
Gajendra Seattle My dear Gajendra das, Please accept my blessings, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 24, 1970 and I am so glad to learn that at the present moment you are president of the center; it is a great satisfaction to me. When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when overladen with fruits becomes...
Gurudasa My dear Gurudasa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 19 January, 1970. Yes. By the grace of Krishna, Gargamuni and others here are taking particular care of me and I am very much indebted to you all; not only here, where ever I go the same care is taken of me. Gargamuni is paying very exorbitant rent for the house where I am living now. It is ...
New Vrindaban My dear Paramananda, Please accept my blessings and I thank you very much for your kind letter dated 28th December, 1970. I am so glad to hear that your son Premananda is already walking and already chanting Hare Krishna. That is very good. So Krishna has blessed you with a nice Krishna Conscious wife and a devotee son and good atmosphere for raising a family in Krishna Consciousness....
My dear Satyabhama Devi Dasi, Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your fine Vaisnava son Premananda. I am in due receipt of your very kind letter dated 28th December. Yes, you may write some of the stories in simplified version for the children. That is very nice. The story of characters cannot be changed or anything made up, but simply the language may be changed. Also it is good to...
Tucson My dear Sukadeva, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter undated and have noted the contents carefully. I am so glad to hear that you have now opened a center in Tucson, Arizona. It has been my desire to open 108 branches of our society all over the world and due to the sincere efforts of devotees such as your good self, it is actually happening. If you simply follow...
Mexico City My dear Turya dasa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter of December 21, 1972, and I have noted the contents carefully. The reports that have come from our Mexico City temple have always been encouraging and I am glad to learn that now you wish to increase your service still further. Krsna is unlimited, and His devotees
Paris My dear Bhagavan das adhikari, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your telegram reading as follows (dated Jan. 25th, 1975): NEED SANCTION LETTER FROM PRABHUPADA FOR MANAGING OTHER EUROPEAN TEMPLES FORWARD TO PARIS GERMANY---BHAGAVANDAS. So far our movement is concerned, actually it is not a so-called religion movement. People throughout the whole world are more or less disgusted...
Revatinandana Laguna Beach My dear Revatinandana, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated 2nd January, 1976. Where ever you deliver your lectures to students try to introduce at least our small books. If the students purchase these cheaper, smaller books, they will get a permanent impression of Krishna Consciousness. Especially present them
ISKCON London 7 Bury Place, Bloomsbury London W.C. 1, England Nayapalli, Bhubaneswara, Orissa Dist. Puri, INDIA Dear Citraketudasa, Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter, undated, along with the poems. On hearing your poem Narada and the Hunter I think you have done nicely. Yes, you are correct when you say you should not try to write Krsna and the gopis; such topics are...
Singapore Dear Vidyapati, Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter dated January 12, and have studied the contents. I am very pleased with your activities there and advise you to go on with kirtana. You say there is a small community there taking part in kirtana and prasadam distribution, so try to increase it as far as possible, according to time and place in the situation you find...